A judge has taken the unprecedented step of branding a father responsible for
the brutal attacks that led to the death of his baby, despite the man’s
acquittal by a jury.

Martin Thomas, 30, was cleared of fracturing his daughter Evie’s skull three
times and breaking 14 of her ribs before she died aged four months in 2013.
He walked free, saying that he had proved his innocence.

Now Mr Justice Peter Jackson, a senior family court judge, has ruled that
Thomas should be identified as the perpetrator of the attacks because he
lied and tried to blame his former